Team of Rivals_ The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln - Doris Kearns Goodwin [496]
“Men might love…ignore him”: Glyndon G. Van Deusen, “Thurlow Weed: A Character Study,” American Historical Review XLIX (April 1944), p. 427.
“as a hen does its chicks”: Hendrick, Lincoln’s War Cabinet, p. 17.
an exceptional team: Richard L. Watson, Jr., “Thurlow Weed, Political Boss,” New York History 22 (October 1941), p. 415.
“Seward is Weed”: WHS, quoted in Gideon Welles, Lincoln and Seward Remarks Upon the Memorial Address of Chas. Francis Adams, on the Late Wm. H. Seward… (New York: Sheldon & Co., 1874), p. 23.
Weed certainly understood…created jealousy: Van Deusen, William Henry Seward, pp. 216, 222–23.
Weed believed…emerge the victor: TW to WHS, May 20, 1860, reel 59, Seward Papers.
Members…confirmed Weed’s assessment: Mary King Clark, “Lincoln’s Nomination As Seen By a Young Girl from New York,” Putnam’s Magazine 5 (February 1909), pp. 536–37.
“no cause for doubting…to the result”: James Watson Webb to WHS, May 16, 1860, reel 59, Seward Papers.
“Your friends…a few ballots”: Elbridge Gerry Spaulding to WHS, May 17, 1860, reel 59, Seward Papers.
“All right…today sure”: Telegram from Preston King, William M. Evarts, and Richard M. Blatchford to WHS, May 18, 1860, reel 59, Seward Papers.
Gothic mansion…State and Sixth Streets: “History of the Chase House,” article in the Central Ohio Buildings File, Local History Room, Columbus Metropolitan Library, Columbus, Ohio; William Dean Howells, Years of My Youth (New York and London: Harper & Bros., 1916; 1917), p. 153.
Brass bands…were revealed: Daily Ohio Statesman, Columbus, Ohio, May 19, 1860.
Chase’s height, physical description: Albert Bushnell Hart, Salmon P. Chase, introduction by G. S. Boritt. American Statesmen Series (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1899; New York and London: Chelsea House, 1980), p. 415; Hendrick, Lincoln’s War Cabinet, p. 32.
“looked…statesman to look”: Schurz, Reminiscences, Vol. II, p. 34.
“he is one of…splendor and brilliancy”: Troy [N.Y.] Times, October 18, 1860, quoted in Columbus Gazette, November 2, 1860.
“an arresting duality…the world”: Thomas Graham Belden and Marva Robins Belden, So Fell the Angels (Boston: Little, Brown, 1956), p. 4.
dressed with meticulous care: Hart, Salmon P. Chase, p. 415.
so nearsighted: John Niven, Salmon P. Chase: A Biography (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), pp. 79, 173, 193.
man of unbending routine: Virginia Tatnall Peacock, Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth Century (1900; Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, 1970), p. 211; Demarest Lloyd, “The Home-Life of Salmon Portland Chase,” Atlantic Monthly 32 (November 1873), pp. 528, 530–31, 536, 538; Niven, Salmon P. Chase, pp. 203–05; J. W. Schuckers, The Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase, United States Senator and Governor of Ohio; Secretary of the Treasury, and Chief-Justice of the United States (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1874), p. 595; Schurz, Reminiscences, Vol. II, pp. 169–70.
On the rare nights: Lloyd, “Home-Life of Salmon Portland Chase,” Atlantic Monthly, pp. 529 (quote), 531; Peacock, Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth Century, pp. 211–12; Ishbel Ross, Proud Kate: Portrait of an Ambitious Woman (New York: Harper & Bros., 1953), p. 37.
items in Chase home: SPC to KCS, December 3, 4, 5, and 6, 1857, reel 11, Chase Papers.
dogs…“designed and posed”: Doster, Lincoln and Episodes of the Civil War, p. 173.
description of Columbus in 1860: Howells, Years of My Youth, pp. 134, 169, 181 (quote); Francis Phelps Weisenburger, Columbus during the Civil War (n.p.: Ohio State University Press for the Ohio Historical Society, 1963), pp. 3–4.
new Capitol building: Henry Howe, Historical Collections of Ohio, Vol. I, Ohio Centennial Edition (Norwalk, Ohio: Laning Printing Co., 1896), p. 621 (quote); Writers’ Program of the Works Projects Administration, comps., The Ohio Guide, sponsored by Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society (New York: Oxford University Press, 1940; 1948), pp. 251, 254.
contrast between Seward and Chase: Hendrick, Lincoln’s War Cabinet, p. 36; Johnson, “Sensitivity and